Hardly a month or even a week had passed in my working life without either or both of these men appearing in the headlines of the world. It was exciting to play a small role in their big lives.
● To everyone it was like a death in the family. Even those who opposed all their lives felt the shock of some sort of bereavement. It has never been before, and not since, such an overwhelming flow of publicly expressed mourning. On the day of Cheddi Jagan’s funeral, Georgetown, for which he never voted in majority, came out to honor him. At Buxton they stopped his cortege on his way to Berbice to pay due respect. Flying up to the obsequies, circling the surrounding villages and sugar estates, I saw the streets and dwellings all abandoned, deserted, ghosts, all men, women and children gone to Bab John . In any nation’s family there is quarreling but these are put aside when an equally respected older figure in the family dies.